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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When Mapserver started to use AGG renderer everybody thought that antialiasing is not only the strength of the library but also the only way AGG can render. See
<a href="https://mapserver.org/output/agg.html">https://mapserver.org/output/agg.html</a> and
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2007-September/025467.html">
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2007-September/025467.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But then some Mapserver users noticed that AGG (and Mapnik) can also do aliased rendering at least for lines. Discussion on the mailing list
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2017-October/080278.html">
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2017-October/080278.html</a> yielded a GitHub issue
<a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/5508">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/5508</a> and a commit
<a href="https://github.com/erik-h11/mapserver/commit/9ca99e763738fba7acaea6089afb5b5b7cd6e699">
https://github.com/erik-h11/mapserver/commit/9ca99e763738fba7acaea6089afb5b5b7cd6e699</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">However, the Mapserver documentation is unclear
<a href="https://mapserver.org/mapfile/style.html#mapfile-style-antialias">https://mapserver.org/mapfile/style.html#mapfile-style-antialias</a>. I understand it so that setting antialias has not been functional since 7.0, and in 8.0 the whole keyword was removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“ANTIALIAS [true|false]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Removed in version 8.0: GD support was removed in 7.0 (and this mapfile parameter was removed in 8.0)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Should antialiasing be applied to the style. For line rendering only. Default is false.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My conclusions at the moment are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">ANTIALIAS true|false does work in STYLE. It affects only lines, but polygon outlines are also lines. The default is TRUE.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">ANTIALIAS does not have an effect in other places: LABEL and SYMBOL. They are always antialiased.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If that is correct I may have a try with improving the documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I started to experiment with antialias because I was not very satisfied with a very simple map that has only lines and labels. For my mind the lines on that map look better without antialiasing. Unfortunately I could
not do anything for the labels. Especially dashes turn out light grey and blurry. The font is truetype, Vera, and the text color in the mapfile is pure black. All hints for making labels sharper are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><img border="0" width="93" height="32" style="width:.9687in;height:.3333in" id="Kuva_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DA1805.A8C0ED50"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">-Jukka Rahkonen-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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